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Feybeasts

@feybeasts

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Artist, frequently of big anthros. Mid 30’s, ΘΔ, you can find me on FA, Tumblr, and Bluesky too! 18+ please, I make weird stuff sometimes.

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Of all the “controversial” opinions I have

The one I know would get me flak on Tumbr is “actually, outside of the music, I really don’t care for the Persona games”

Never really been one for turn-based rock-paper-scissors combat (hey guess who Bounced Off Of Pokemon Too) and I find the premise of “this is otherwise a social sim as a teenager” really… uninteresting and usually pretty poorly written. To say nothing of the Really Uncomfortable Views On Homosexuality in more than a few entries, it just… is not a series I’ve ever clicked on. I find myself scavenging for parts of the aesthetic and presentation I enjoy but I find the rest can mostly be discarded, and its outsized reputation as a game series I feel comes down more to that presentation and the audience’s lack of engagement with “difficult” media leaving them open to treating any uncomfortable interpersonal twist in the narrative as “profound storytelling” in games that rarely actually have anything of substance to say at all.

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@feybeasts

If you made them about old ladies in a retirement home instead of teenagers in high school it would be miles better

New kid at school? No, your kids put you in a home, you discover your latent powers of demon summoning and they give you back the agency you had been robbed of, and you must navigate both the vicious politics of Elderly People With Too Much Free Time and the imminent threats to the world- and baby?

The Golden Girls have nothing to lose but their chains

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Cania
@Cania

basically same, although i do like the parts of SMT games ive played that aren't persona. i can get my cool weird horny demons there and not have to deal with all the other baggage, also im sick of stories about high schoolers being posed as interesting to adults.

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Cania
@Cania

ive never finished one but i got the closest to finishing SMT Strange Journey, and i liked SMT V the best. i need to pick up III at some point though, seems most like my style

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lorenziniforce
@lorenziniforce

i love the games but im also solidly in the "this would work so much better if you gave us one about college kids or coworkers teaming up" but its partly a japanese culture thing, unforch. there's a lot of focus in Japanese media on high school being the Best Years Of Your Life, even more than in the west, because of how crushing the work expectations are once you enter the workforce

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lorenziniforce
@lorenziniforce

honestly tho like

P5 already had a lot of pretty strong and explicit social commentary on Japanese politics and culture

i think a persona with a younger-working-adult cast that explicitly has themes of criticizing the rigidity of Japan's work and buisness culture would be a really cool direction to take the series. Like just do a huge callout on the societal expectations to drink with your boss after work, etc

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feybeasts
@feybeasts

Yeah! Thank you Andi, that’s really interesting context! I’d love to see a game like that approaching and dismantling a lot of those destructive social norms, especially in a space that, like you said, isn’t just high school. It’s untapped potential!

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Charred-Scales
@Charred-Scales

Haven't beaten P3R so I can't say much to it yet. I do love the music, and the game can be fun, but honestly I am more a fan of the game as a "hang around town and occasionally fight demons" thing. It's kind of odd how often the game tries to get you back into the forever dungeon. Like, it gets deeply uninteresting to me after you've gotten through the major part before the next big story beat, but because it's an RPG that's also the only way to get a good chunk of cash and loot.

Also now I also really want an RPG where the main cast is old ladies in a retirement home that actually sounds really good!

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Filly
@Filly

i haven't played persona or really watched it but an unfortunately strong memory for me is sitting in the computer lab in college listening to classmates talk about which persona 5 character they think is the hottest and that really unfairly painting my perception of the series.

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